toxic love
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A cruel sentence reduces an entire relationship to sex, forcing a woman to separate being wanted from being loved.
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A woman looks back at everything she tried to keep alive and finally names the last thing she ever owed the person who kept hurting her.
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A poem about refusing to let a breakup be rewritten as a mutual ending.
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After the relationship ran out of words, songs became the last language two people could still send across the distance.
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A relationship can contain real love and still be destroying you; eventually safety has to matter more than the name you gave it.
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A poem about mourning who someone might have become before finally letting go of who they were.
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The relationship ended, but the music survived—songs trapped in a time before they knew how the story would end.
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Before survival, there was possibility: two people standing in a beautiful doorway before either knew where it would lead.
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Curiosity becomes haunting when someone peers through the window of a life they think they understand and finds poetry sharp enough to recognize them.
